Why Taiwan is important in global and Indo-Pacific regional peace and security
Key information
- Date
- Time
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2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
- Venue
- Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), SOAS University of London
- Room
- Alumni Lecture Theatre (SALT)
- Event type
- Lecture
About this event
In this talk, Dr Tien will address the subject matter by systematically assessing four key issues.
He will review the current status of relations across the Taiwan Strait, and the major factors that make Taiwan geo-strategically important. He will also assess the importance of Taiwan in US-China relations. He will further examine the reasons why the UK and the EU should care about Taiwan, as well as the prospects for improving relations in the future.
He will conclude on why Taiwan is important not only to the peace and security of the Indo-Pacific region but to the world at large.
About the speaker
Dr. Hung-mao Tien is the Chairman and President of the Institute for National Policy Research in Taiwan. He is also a Senior Advisor to the R.O.C. President, and the Chief Advisor to Taiwan’s National Federation of Industries. He had previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation, and Taiwan’s Representative to the United Kingdom.
In the United States, he had served on the advisory boards of various leading institutions like Harvard University’s Asia Center, the Brookings Institution, the Asia Society, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Prior to a career in public service in Taiwan he was a professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), which has honoured him with the Distinguished Alumni Global Achievement Award.
He has published extensively, and is the author or editor of five important books: Government and Politics in Kuomintang China 1927 37; The Great Transition: Social and Political Change in the Republic of China; Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies; China Under Jiang Zemin; and The Security Environment in the Asia Pacific.
Chair: Professor Steve Tsang, Director, SOAS China Institute
Registration
This event is free to attend, but registration is required. Please note that seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
This event is taking place on campus and will not be recorded or live-streamed.
Organiser
- This event is co-hosted by the SOAS China Institute and Centre of Taiwan Studies.
Contact
- Email: sci@soas.ac.uk
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